An Odyssey Odyssey
Dec. 23rd, 2025 12:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
setsuledThe trailer for Christopher Nolan's adaptation of The Odyssey is out. I don't know, I like Christopher Nolan but I kind of think he's wrong for this material. He said, as usual, he wants something that seems grounded in reality. Sometimes his idea of reality is monotone.
Yeah, I think serious and grim fit within The Odyssey. But there's so much more to it, much like life itself. So I question whether having everything the same colour is truly grounded in reality. The Odyssey is also about beauty and astounding weirdness. I won't judge the film before it comes out but so far I'm thinking it'll fall short of the Kirk Douglas version. That one had Silvana Mangano, how could anyone else compete?
X Sonnet 1971
A private stock became a public punch.
A gracious juice was flowing over folks.
A golden egg was served to all at lunch.
With festive hearts, they drank the dripping yolks.
Balloons of roasted fowl were floating by.
A manic grin displaced the deadened beak.
A candle flame pursues the firefly.
The honey spleen has sprung a tasty leak.
With onion microphones she danced above.
The crowd, entranced, beheld the siren bot.
A stack of burning cards was sold for love.
They work on those averse to careful thought.
A drunk parade dissolves to blurry men.
Be sure to use the labelled garbage bin.
